Dr. James Katz of Boston University, along with 11 others, were honored as ICA Fellows in Fukuoka, Japan at the 2016 International Communication Association conference.

Dr. Katz is one of the initial, central, ongoing, and influential scholars in the study of mobile communication. He served as chair of ICA’s Communication and Technology Division and as editor of Human Communication Research, and was the founder and organizer of the preconferences on Mobile Communication.